After pulling the wool over everyone's eyes, Professor Trelawney returned to her previous spot, satisfied.
The students in this year's class were quite good. They all looked easy enough to fool.
Professor Trelawney decided to turn up the heat a little in the lesson that followed and show off her best trick.
"I used my Inner Eye to see that we'll be learning to interpret tea-leaf shapes in our first lesson."
Professor Trelawney continued in her airy, ethereal voice,
"I'd like you to work in pairs. Each of you, take a cup from the shelf and bring it over to me."
"I'll fill your cups with tea."
"Once you've drunk all but the tea leaves, use your left hand to swirl the leaves around in your cup three times, then turn the cup upside down on the saucer."
"Once the last drop of tea has drained out, please hand your cup to your partner to interpret."
"Of course, while you're doing this, you can refer to chapters five and six of Unfogging the Future to interpret the tea-leaf shapes."
What the hell?
Harley felt more and more certain that this professor was a fraud.
Demonesses were masters of counter-divination, and they also had a certain advantage when it came to learning mystical knowledge.
So Harley knew quite a lot about various methods of divination.
At the same time, as a Demoness who often dealt with pests in the underworld, Harley had met quite a few Beyonders from the Seer Pathway, and had even met a demigod from that Pathway.
She'd heard of tarot-card readings, dowsing rods for finding things, and even the simplest coin-toss divination.
But tea-leaf reading, done entirely by a bunch of beginners... Well, she had to admit she was ignorant. Harley had never seen that before.
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